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A call to the Wilkesboro Food Lion Store Tuesday led to the discovery of a counterfeiting operation at a Wilkesboro Motel. The incident started with the suspicions of a checker at the Food Lion on Westwood Lane, management reporting that a clerk had taken some $350 in suspicious
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The Ashe County Sheriff’s Office has arrested three people for a string of vandalisms that occurred around November 10th. The string of property damages started in the Three Top area, progressing to West Buffalo, Buck Mountain and Ray Taylor Road. In all, six mailboxes and
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A former ASU football player is suing the school after being forced off of the football team under accusations of rape. Lanston Tanyi was one of two football team members accused of the rape of a woman student in 2011, saying that during a university hearing, the woman was
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The Watauga County Board of County Commissioners emerged from their executive session Tuesday night and voted 3 to 2 to intervene in the case of the Town of Boone verses the state of North Carolina over the town’s ETJ powers. The action comes as the county is considering
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The State Board of Examiners of Plumbing, Heating & Fire Sprinkler Contractors has taken action against a second contractor as a result of the board’s investigation into work performed at the Boone Best Western Hotel where three people died in the spring of 2013. The hotel was inspected
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The widow of a man shot and killed by an Ashe County deputy has filed suit against the deputy and the department. Detective Brandon Howell shot and killed Mark Houck in November of 2012 after Houck fired several shots from his front porch. Houck, who was said to have been
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Watauga Emergency Management said last week that they were very pleased the reverse communication test conducted in Watauga County on November 12th. The ‘Code Red’ system placed calls to numbers associated with every address in the county, and although 61% of the
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The Appalachian State University football won its fifth-consecutive game in convincing fashion, routing three-time-defending New Orleans Bowl champion UL-Lafayette, 35-16, on Saturday afternoon at Cajun Field in Lafayette, La.
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Another unattended death is under investigation of the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office, that after a man was found dead last night at 222 Fair Oaks Ct. Reports indicate a possible suicide claimed the life of the 47 year old man. The body was transported to Lenoir an evaluation before possibly
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Frank Eaves (Greensboro, N.C./Page) hit the game-winning shot with one second remaining as Appalachian State University men’s basketball upset Virginia Tech, 65-63, on Saturday at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Va.
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The Boone Town Council faced the public over the issue of extending the bonds needed to construct the controversial water intake on the New River, a matter town manager John Ward said had already received tentative approval from funding authorities. But that didn’t
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The Watauga Sheriff’s Office identified the persons involved in a fight early yesterday morning that ended with two transported to Watauga Medical Center, one stabbed in the abdomen. Cpt. Dee Dee Rominger identified that man as 22-year old Darian Gordon of Charlotte,
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The Watauga County Commission took a first look at protections for the soon-to-be former Boone Extraterritorial Jurisdiction at their meeting last night, setting into motion a process to offer protections to several—but not all—of the current Boone ETJ. Rick Mattar from the Planning
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Wednesday, the Boone Police Department received a call of an unattended death at 270 Oak Street—yet another young Appalachian State Student found deceased. Police say Grayson Charles Huffman, 22, was found dead in his residence. They said Grayson Charles Huffman was
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A woman was injured in an afternoon accident on Broadstone Road after he car landed on its side off of the road. The crash was caused by inattention, according to the investigating trooper, not weather issues. Foscoe Fire/First Responders, Watauga Rescue, and Watauga Medics
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High Country Crime Stoppers and the Watauga County Sheriff's Office seek the public’s assistance in solving the following crime: On Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at 4:19 AM an unknown white male entered New River Building Supply by breaking a window and entering a warehouse door. The
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High Country Crime Stoppers and the Watauga County Sheriff's Office seek the assistance of the public assistance in solving the following crime: Sometime between 9:00 PM Wednesday, October 29, 2014, and 4:00 AM Thursday, October 30, 2014, an inflatable ghost stack Halloween
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A man listing a Spruce Pine address was killed late Saturday morning in a single vehicle crash in Mitchell County. The 10:50am crash occurred on Arbuckle Road when 65-year old Lee Renfro ran off of the road in his pickup, traveling off the left side of the road where it first struck a
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Watauga County Board of Education Chair Dr. Lee Warren and Vice-Chair Delora Hodges were recognized for their service to education during their final meeting as Board members November 10th. Warren has completed a total of 16 years of service as a member,
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